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MEN’S GAMES CLASSIC BODYBUILDING
Other divisions were run as previously. Men’s Games
Classic Bodybuilding is the lightest bodybuilding-style
division, intended for less muscular men, with smaller
bodyweight limits compared to other classes. According
to the program, Men’s Games Classic Bodybuilding should
include three categories: up to 171cm, up to 180 cm and
over 180 cm; however, after the weigh-in two lowest
categories were combined to one up to 180 cm class with
16 athletes in the line-up. And once again the winner
was… Romanian athlete Safier Koorndijk-Iancu, getting
the perfect scores in all rounds. Silver Medal went to the
next Romanian competitor Robert-Mihai Fratila, who
finished 1 point ahead of Jakub Szuba of Poland.
The tall class title went to Slovak bodybuilder Mario
Majercik but athletes in the 2nd and 3rd place were tied
35:35 in the final score. Following the detailed analysis
according to the IFBB rules, Silver Medal went to Borislav
Stjepanovic of Montenegro and Bronze Medal to Samuel
Skombar of Slovakia.
After the victory ceremony, two continental champions
entered the stage once again to run the battle for the Men’s Games Classic
Overall title. And once again this prestigious title went Bodybuilding up to 180 cm Men’s Games Classic
to Safier Koorndijk-Iancu. By this, he reduplicated his & Overall Bodybuilding over 180 cm
achievement from 2023 European Championships. SAFIER KOORNDIJK-IANCU MARIO MAJERCIK
Originally from Suriname, Safier moved to Romania in
2016 after meeting Carmen, his current wife, with whom
he has two children.

MEN’S CLASSIC BODYBUILDING
This time number of categories was decreased from 5 to
4 as there were only two bodybuilders below 168 cm. In
this configuration one of them, Turkish athlete Ramazan
Basturk (164 cm tall) won the 171 cm class, after a very
tough battle against French athlete Nicolas Forgeau. They
were tied in the mandatory poses round but Basturk’s
posing routine was scored 1 point better than Forgeau’s
routine. Tomas Kucerak (Slovakia) won the Bronze Medal.
The 175 cm category was dominated by the well-known
athlete from the previous divisions, Safier Koorndijk-Iancu
(Romania), and once again with perfect scores. Second
place went to the next Romanian champion Robert-Mihai
Fratila while Slovak bodybuilder Ladislav Korsch took the
Bronze Medal. In 2023 Koorndijk-Iancu also won this class,
ahead of Korsch. With 9 athletes on the stage, the Semifinal Men’s Classic Men’s Classic Bodybuilding up
round was needed. Bodybuilding up to 171 cm to 175 cm & Overall
The 180 cm class had the longest line-up in this division, RAMAZAN BASTURK SAFIER KOORNDIJK-IANCU
with 16 athletes on the stage, but the elimination round
was not run. The clear winner of this category was the new
Polish star Krzysztof Haba, receiving almost perfect scores
in all rounds. Since the 2024 medal winners didn’t come,
the next two places went to: Jan Palenicek (Czech Republic)
and Ilyas Abdullayev (Azerbaijan). Palenicek moved up
from the 7th position a year ago.
The tall class, over 180 cm. All medal winners are new
in this class. Only Robert Wahlander of Sweden, dropped
one place down, finishing in the 4th position, compared to
his Bronze Medal in 2024. The best was 25-year-old Mario
Majercik of Slovakia who, after being tied in the first two
rounds with Goran Copic of Serbia, won the routine round
8:12, what assured him the second Gold Medal, following
his victory in the Games Classic Bodybuilding tall class. On
the other hand, Copic was tied with Tomas Roskot of the
Czech Republic in the routine round but was better scored
in the mandatory poses round, so got the Silver Medal. 2014
European champion, 40-year-old Boris Orava of the Czech
Republic, took the 5th position.
The overall category was the next triumph of the
unbeatable Safier Koorndijk-Iancu, who came to this
continental championships in his best-life condition,
combining ideal body proportions with impressive muscle
mass and top definition. Krzysztof Haba (Poland) took the Men’s Classic Men’s Classic
second place. Bodybuilding up to 180 cm Bodybuilding over 180 cm
KRZYSZTOF HABA MARIO MAJERCIK

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